Public Service

Discussion — 2 or 3 units. This course will examine the legal and social regulation of sexual orientation and gender identity.  The course will analyze various legal principles, including statutory, constitutional, and public policy doctrines, which might be used to limit the ability of government and other institutions to disadvantage people because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Members of the Trial Practice Honors Board administer the Frances Carr Intraschool Trial Advocacy Competition. Members are nominated by their individual Trial Practice I adjuncts. Students receive one credit for service on the board. Credit is awarded upon approval of faculty advisor.

Grading Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Discussion — 3 units.  An introduction to the mechanics and preparation of trial. The class features lectures, demonstrations, assigned readings, and trial drills. The emphasis throughout the course is on the formulation and implementation of trial strategy, theory and theme of the case and practical techniques. Students will conduct all phases of a trial, including opening statements, direct and cross examinations, and closing arguments.

Evening laboratory is 2 hours (held on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings).

Discussion — 2 or 3 units. Water supply, use, infrastructure, and organizations; rights in surface waters, including riparian rights, prior appropriation, and federal reserved rights; environmental and constitutional constraints on water use; groundwater rights and management; drought and emergency water curtailment; interaction of state and federal law; contemporary case studies and challenges; water equity considerations.

Final Assessment: Paper
Grading Mode:  Letter Grading
 

Students who take Law 258/258H Professional Responsibility are not eligible to enroll in this course. Discussion — 3 units. This course explores the formal rules of ethics governing the legal profession, including the affirmative duties reflected in different states’ Rules of Professional Conduct (RPCs), which, in turn, largely reflect the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. These rules are tested on state bar exams and the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE).

Seminar — 3 units. This seminar presents tax policy as an exploration in public finance, politics, special interests, and sociology as well as a reflection of society’s biases, priorities, perceptions of distribution and redistribution, and justice in the most fundamental sense of fairness and opportunity. It embraces the view that tax law is constructed and contingent. And it exposes students to a generation of “critical tax” scholarship, which has been influenced by critical legal studies and its progeny, including critical race theory, feminist legal theory, and queer theory.

This seminar is the companion seminar to the Washington UC-DC Externship and is designed to enhance the externship experience in three principal ways:

Students who have previously taken Law 218, Constitutional Law II, or who plan to take Constitutional Law II for 4 units may not take this course. 

Lecture — 2 units.  This course principally covers the free speech clause of the First Amendment. The course will cover issues relating to freedom of speech and assembly: focusing on how the protection provided speech changes depending on the kind of speech that is regulated, the location where speech occurs, and the nature of the regulation that limits expression.

Students who have previously taken Law 218 Constitutional Law II, or who plan to take Constitutional Law II for 4 units may not take this course. Discussion — 2 units.  Students are not required to have taken Constitutional Law II- First Amendment to register for this course, although priority will be given to those students.  This course focuses on the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.